Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the widow of aviator and
conservationist Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., was a noted
writer and aviation pioneer.
Born June 22, 1906 in Englewood, New Jersey, Anne Morrow
Lindbergh was the daughter of businessman, ambassador, and
U.S. Senator Dwight Morrow and poet and women's education
advocate Elizabeth Cutter Morrow. Her family spent summers
at the seashore: Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod and later on
the island of North Haven off the coast of Maine. She
received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College in
1928, and married Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., on May 27, 1929.
Six children were born to the Lindberghs -- Charles A., III
(deceased, 1932), Jon, Land, Anne (deceased, 1993), Scott
and Reeve.
Much time during the early years of the Lindberghs' marriage
was spent flying. Anne served as her husband's co-pilot,
navigator and radio operator on history-making explorations,
charting potential air routes for commercial airlines. They
made air surveys across the continent and in the Caribbean
to pioneer Pan American's air mail service. In 1931, they
journeyed, in a single-engine airplane, over uncharted
routes from Canada and Alaska to Japan and China, which she
chronicled in her first book, North to the Orient.
They then completed, in the same single-engine Lockheed
"Sirius," a five-and-one-half-month, 30,000-mile survey of
North and South Atlantic air routes in 1933 (the subject of
Anne Lindbergh's book, Listen! the Wind). Charles
characterized this expedition as more difficult and
hazardous than his epic New York-to-Paris flight in 1927 in
the "Spirit of St. Louis."
The National Geographic Society awarded its Hubbard Gold
Medal to Anne Lindbergh in 1934 for her accomplishments in
40,000 miles of exploratory flying over five continents with
her husband. A year earlier, she had been honored with the
Cross of Honor of the U.S. Flag Association for her part in
the survey of transatlantic air routes. In 1993, Women in
Aerospace presented her with a special Aerospace Explorer
Award in recognition of her achievements and contributions
to the aerospace field.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh was also the first licensed woman
glider pilot in the United States.
In addition to North to the Orient and Listen! the
Wind, Anne Lindbergh is the author of 11 other published
books. They include Earth Shine, in which she wrote
of being at Cape Kennedy for the first moon-orbiting flight
and how that Apollo 8 flight and the pictures it sent back
of Earth gave humankind "a new sense of Earth's richness and
beauty;" The Steep Ascent, a novel that tells the
story of a perilous flight made by a husband and wife; the
inspirational and widely read Gift from the Sea,
perhaps her best-known work; and five volumes of diaries and
letters from the years 1922-1944.
Smith College, Amherst College, the University of Rochester
and Gustavus Adolphus College have all presented honorary
degrees to Mrs. Lindbergh. In addition, she has also been
inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame, the
National Women's Hall of Fame, and the Aviation Hall of Fame
of New Jersey. She is also a recipient of the Christopher
Award for the fifth volume of her diaries, War Within and
Without.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh died February 7, 2001 at her second
home in Vermont.
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Series
Books:North To The Orient, October 1996
Paperback (reprint)
Gift from the Sea, October 1991
Hardcover
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